***These guidelines have been amended since March. Click here for the latest***

We will be reopening the building on a limited basis starting Sunday, March 21. We will have a 9 AM service in our educational wing’s Adult Sunday school room. Our second service will be in the sanctuary at 10:15 AM. We will livestream our second service and also offer it on the radio. Below are our updated reopening guidelines.

Worship

• Persons who are sick must stay home
• Masks required for everyone*
• Singers or preachers might take off mask for a limited amount of time
• Persons attending in-person worship must socially distance by utilizing the open areas of the pews (folks living in the same household may sit together)
• Persons are encouraged to use one staircase to go up to the sanctuary and one staircase to leave sanctuary
• Elevator should be sanitized after each use
• Sanitizer bottles filled and strategically placed
• Limited areas of the church facility will be open to the public
• Worship services shortened for safety
• Disinfection of sanctuary in line with CDC guidelines after worship
• No communion
• No passing of the plate- offering receptacles will be strategically placed for offering
• No physical bulletins
• No greeters
• No handshaking
• No singing in-person except by designated persons
• No passing of the peace
• No nursery or in-person Sunday school
• Physical objects (hymnals, Bibles, etc.) in the sanctuary will be moved from pew areas
• The head usher to take attendance by name on Sundays for contact tracing and normal attendance tracking purposes (and solicit contact information from visitors)
• High touch areas will be cleaned regularly 
• Only the bathroom in the children’s chapel area will be open
• Persons need to sanitize bathroom after use, please follow signs
• An online option for worship will be offered (streaming or recorded)

Ministry Outside Worship

• Meetings, Sunday School, Bible studies, and other gatherings should be conducted by video calls and/or social media
• Persons visiting church or pastor’s offices should visit carefully with the aim of social distancing

*Persons with ongoing respiratory problems and children under the age two may choose not to wear mask